Manipulation of date and time with the lubridate package

The title of the lubridate package documentation in CRAN is Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier. In my mind, this is a very modest title for a package that makes work with date and time objects more effective, simple, and time efficient. This section introduces alternative tools and applications with the lubridate package for reformatting, converting, and handling date and time objects.

Reformatting date and time objects – the lubridate way

To understand how simple it is to reformat date and time objects with the lubridate package, let's go back to the complex time object (Monday, December 31, 2018 11:59:59 PM) we converted earlier to a POSIXct class...